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Plano Comedian Debuts on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon

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Stand-up comedy is one of the most intimate and intimidating forms of performance out there. So, it says something when Jimmy Fallon invites you to The Tonight Show. And it happened to a woman from Plano. “Making her Tonight Show debut. Please welcome the very funny Ainsley Bailey,” and with that introduction from Jimmy Fallon , Ainsley Bailey stepped onto the stage at Studio 6-B last Tuesday night and into a changed life. Bailey, 34, earned the coveted spot on The Tonight Show after she was recently selected as a New Face of Comedy at the prestigious 2026 Montreal Just For Laughs comedy festival. She says life’s been such a whirlwind since that she had to get a manager! “The whole experience was so surreal. Literally, when they first offered it to me, I was like, are you sure? Like, it felt crazy to think that I would be doing something that big, and it the gravity of it didn’t hit me until I was on that sound stage,” Bailey said from her home in Los Angeles, where she now lives. Bail